# Missing HTML meta-tag "Content-Language" for BING language detection

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-html-meta-tag-content-language-for-bing-language-detection/234565
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 31, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-html-meta-tag-content-language-for-bing-language-detection/234565 "2022-07-31T08:49:36Z")
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### Author: ![guidoleenders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/guidoleenders/32/196268_2.png) [@guidoleenders](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guidoleenders)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-html-meta-tag-content-language-for-bing-language-detection/234565/1 "2022-07-31T08:49:36Z")

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Microsoft’s search engine has a different way of establishing a web page’s language than Google. The documented HTML-tag to make BING recognize the language is through the `meta`-HTML tag.

> **[Bing Webmaster Blog | This is a place devoted to giving you deeper...](https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster)**
>
> This is a place devoted to giving you deeper insight into the news, trends, people and technology behind Bing.

For example:

```html
<meta name="content-language" content="en"></meta>

```

Typically, Bing will be able to guess the actual language based upon the actual text. But this is not guaranteed to work in all cases.

It would be handy in terms of presenting relevant search results in Bing to also set the `content-language` on Discourse.